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Tammy Wise2023-12-31 21:17:572023-12-31 21:17:57A Fireside Chat Ignites Old WaysWelcome to the BodyLogos blog. Here’s where you’ll get your dose of alignment and balance with grace. (Sign up here to join 1,000 other blog subscribers.)
Redefining Strength
I want to change our perception of strength. Strength is the ability to meet resistance and influence an outcome without compromising ourselves. And we already have it.
Strength is not an attribute; it’s a state of being. Gladiators, bodybuilders, and football players demonstrate strength through brute force, sheer willpower, muscle mass, and relentless pursuit. But we’re also quick to identify dancers and martial artists as strong. Their medium taps into a sense of vulnerability, balance, alignment, controlled power, and grace—but no one can deny their strength. Strength may look different on each of us, but it is an inherent part of who we are.
You are not weak by nature; you are stronger than you think. Your strength is not something you need to kill yourself to gain—it is already within you, waiting to be excavated. The key is to stop chasing something you already have and tap into it, so you can manifest that strength in your everyday life.
Because we don’t think we’re strong, we approach resistance with the idea that we’re not enough. We throw everything we have at it and push past our physical, mental, and emotional limitations. We see strength as domination, but it’s not.
When you learn to listen to your body’s divine wisdom, you cultivate a sense of where your body is developing tension instead of standing in its strength. You end the vicious cycle of unrealistic expectations, injury, and self-criticism and learn how to consciously embrace responsible growth. You stop compartmentalizing your strength into emotional, physical, and mental pieces and operate from the strength of your being at all times.
You learn how to align yourself with gravity—instead of working against it—so you can channel your strength to meet life’s resistance. As you meet resistance with equal parts power and alignment, you transform tension into strength
As in the sword dance above, the power lies in bringing just the right amount of force—not too little and not too much. By meeting the sword’s weight, I meet gravity. I am tapped into a larger source of energy, free of tension, and discover a strength that is wholly and uniquely mine.
About Tammy Wise
Untethered Through the Holiday
by Tammy WiseI was warned that losing a second parent would be heart-altering. What I was not warned about was that, being left with no parents, siblings or children, would be life-altering.
It feels like the taproot attached to my very core has been uprooted. The ground under me tilled, ready for mulch and seed. But the nourishment from rich mulch and chosen seeds not yet in place.
As soon as the funeral wrapped up, I was thrust into wrapping holiday gifts. A lonely undercurrent beckoning me to shift myself somehow.
The holiday was without any of my usual family traditions. I grasped for something that felt like family—I made twenty loaves of mom’s cranberry bread to share—desperately keeping what I knew alive.
I quickly realized that I needed to create my own sense of family within myself.
My taproot wasn’t gone. “I” was simply its only occupant!
I say this with enormous gratitude toward the extended family of nephews, cousins and friends, who held a safe space for me to land in the shattering of my family of origin.
I share this experience for the 13% of adults who have lost all family of origin kin. And, those who could join this small community.
Entering into this new year, I celebrate a new beginning. My authenticity a guiding light, as I embrace myself as the new matriarch of a clan.
I’ve come to realize, that I have an opportunity to empress the values I deem important on great nieces and nephews and second cousins. Values of unity and inclusion. Transforming duty to be what is expected, to loving the differences in each of us.
To be the last kin standing feels untethered, but this new position asks me to respect my own authenticity, as I had always respected the elders before me.
2026 is the year I claim a posture of authority in regard to my own life. Any remaining threads of victimhood attached to parental shortcomings to be transformed into compassionate overviews.
I used to resent having to invite myself into the lives of family and friends. Now I feel empowered to do so. It’s an expression of my love for them, not an intrusion of their time or an unwanted request.
The emotional armor I’ve worn to deflect the dissonance I’ve experienced within my family of origin is melting. It was so embodied, I didn’t know it was there; so reinforced by my own misaligned beliefs, I couldn’t alter its trajectory. It’s only through its retraction that it’s now palpable.
Loneliness no longer defines my untethered state, a new respect for authentic authority does.
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